On 5 April 2005, the Foreign Affairs Committee published its Report on Foreign Policy Aspects of the War Against Terrorism. It called for the UK Government to end its policy of "obfuscation" on rendition.
On 26 May 2006, the Joint Committee on Human Rights published its Report on the UN Convention Against Torture. It addressed the Chicago Convention on civil aviation, and set out the steps the UK Government should take regarding extraordinary rendition to ensure compliance with the Convention.
In January 2009, the International Bar Association published detailed outline of the United States’ extraordinary rendition programme, setting out its history, modus operandi, the the role of European countries.
A November 2013 report by The Task Force on Preserving Medical Professionalism in National Security Detention Centers, supported by the Institute on Medicine as a Profession and the Open Society Foundations.
A two-year investigation by the Washington Post on the US extraordinary rendition programme.
In January 2009, the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights published an overview of legal proceedings and other judicial responses to CIA rendition flights in European countries including the United Kingdom.
In June 2015, Sam Raphael, Crofton Black, and Ruth Blakeley published an article in the International Journal of Human Rights that examines how the tracking of rendition aircraft has provided a fuller understanding of the CIA's rendition programme.
In October 2015, Redress, Amnesty International, Justice, and the International Committee of Jurists made a submission to the UK Supreme Court in the case of Abdul-Hakim and Fatima Belhaj, vs Jack Straw and others.
In December 2014, the US Senate Intelligence Committee released redacted versions of the executive summary and findings and conclusions from its five-year review of the CIA’s detention and interrogation programme.
In February 2010, the UN Special Rapporteurs on torture, and on human rights in counterterrorism, and the Working Groups on Arbitrary Detention and on Enforced Disappearances, presented a joint study on global practices in relation to secret detention in the context of countering terrorism.
In December 2015, Human Rights Watch published a report that sets out evidence to support the main criminal charges that can be brought against those responsible for state-sanctioned torture.
In January 2017, International Area Studies Review published an article by Rebecca Cordell that analyses flight data to estimate international collaboration in rendition, and suggests 307 likely rendition flights and 15 new participating countries beyond the known cases.
In June 2017, Physicians for Human Rights published a report which argues that the CIA’s post-9/11 torture program constituted an illegal, unethical regime of experimental research on unwilling human subjects.
In February 2016, the University of North Carolina School of Law published a report on efforts to obtain compliance with US human rights obligations, transparency about the torture program, and relief for victims of torture.
In September 2017, the International Commission of Jurists published a report which finds that some States continue to resort to abductions and renditions in cases related to counter-terrorism or national security, encouraged by the lack of accountability for US renditions.
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